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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

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Posting this is Gwaihir's fault - you can all blame him. Written ages ago, during RL and emotional winter.

 

        pain is my tool

        I've practiced it's use

 

        I look for happiness inside me

        even beauty would do

        but my fingers grasp nothing

 

        but the flames have a story to tell

        blood whispers words without pause

        and the void has a meaningful face

 

        none of us is a sentence

        nobody can be caught with a few words

 

        perhaps I am still a monotonous bell

        cast for a singular purpose

        to herald the night and black

        to echo with hushed tones

        in my sound an unseparable longing

 

        burial of hope

        I can play with ease

  • 1 year later...
Posted

I particularly like:

 

 

none of us is a sentence

nobody can be caught with a few words

In our modern haste, even the Politically Correct Police like to pigeon-hole people.

This is a great reminder not to be seduced into brief sketches of people when we wield a Pen.

  • 3 years later...
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This put me in mind of a line from Mister Fantastic (of The Fantastic Four), of all people.

 

"You know I have trouble slowing my thoughts down enough to be able to commit them to paper."

 

(this is likely a massive paraphrasing, as I have loaned out this comic book at present and cannot reference it directly, but you get the gist.)

 

 

Eloquent frustration, Sir Z.

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